1.1                          A bill for an act
  1.2             relating to crime victims; implementing an automated 
  1.3             victim notification system; requiring a report; 
  1.4             appropriating money; proposing coding for new law in 
  1.5             Minnesota Statutes, chapter 299A. 
  1.6   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.7      Section 1.  [299A.76] [AUTOMATED VICTIM NOTIFICATION 
  1.8   SYSTEM.] 
  1.9      The center for crime victim services shall oversee the 
  1.10  design and implementation of a statewide automated victim 
  1.11  notification system serving state and local correctional 
  1.12  facilities and courts.  
  1.13     Sec. 2.  [AUTOMATED VICTIM NOTIFICATION SYSTEM PLAN AND 
  1.14  REPORT.] 
  1.15     The commissioner of public safety, in consultation with the 
  1.16  state court administrator and local law enforcement and 
  1.17  correctional agencies, shall develop an equitable ongoing 
  1.18  funding plan to cover the automated victim notification system's 
  1.19  operating costs.  The plan must take into account the ability of 
  1.20  each entity to pay these costs.  By January 15, 2003, the 
  1.21  commissioner shall report on the plan to the chairs of the 
  1.22  senate and house committees or divisions having jurisdiction 
  1.23  over criminal justice policy and funding.  
  1.24     Sec. 3.  [APPROPRIATION.] 
  1.25     $403,869 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2002, and 
  2.1   $535,528 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2003, are 
  2.2   appropriated from the general fund to the commissioner of public 
  2.3   safety to be used by the center for crime victim services for 
  2.4   the statewide automated victim notification system described in 
  2.5   Minnesota Statutes, section 299A.76.  Of this amount: 
  2.6      (1) $82,136 the first year and $136,996 the second year are 
  2.7   to be used for the system's remaining start-up costs related to 
  2.8   correctional facilities; 
  2.9      (2) $321,733 the first year is for the system's partial 
  2.10  start-up and implementation costs relating to courts for the 
  2.11  first year; and 
  2.12     (3) $398,532 the second year is to be used for the system's 
  2.13  remaining implementation costs related to the courts during the 
  2.14  second year.  
  2.15     The appropriation described in clause (3) must be added to 
  2.16  the department's base budget for the next fiscal biennium.  The 
  2.17  appropriations described in clauses (1) and (2) are one-time 
  2.18  appropriations.